Tasty Mystery Baskets of Clips

To connect whatever dots they may find,
There was a lot of research.
"Some creepy stuff in here, guys.
That people, you know, after we got
I mean, I certainly never had any interaction with Codemonkey.
and they've been working together all along.
We went in front of the VIP line.
I was making fun of people
Yeah, that's my website.
sometimes they'll even think it's me.
from this individual who is obviously
I don't even know what I was saying now.
8chan is one of many imageboard websites.
People, I think there's just gonna be this big bust
Filmmaker: Like most anons,
We don't believe Q is just one specific person.
I started researching
Is there 8-- Isn't there--
So, the reach is there.
in order to understand the underlying motives,
Well, I think Q is President Trump.
and everything resonated with me,
but that doesn't mean that QAnon itself is wrong or fake."
Filmmaker: This is how followers see Q,
and it's the website that Q calls home.
would then select the best research
and live-streamed himself, sort of like,
Q left, and went to this board that I had created.
Filmmaker: From the John Kerry Swift Boat campaign of 2004,
He thought it was still the same Q continuing.
Furber: Being a baker is a terrible job.
everybody to come together.
because Corsi was threatening his revenue stream.
but it's arguable that Q would have never broken into the mainstream
Seriously. "Christians" is in their top ten boards.
uh, that, uh, Trump has used for a long time.
That password would get cryptographically scrambled,
And she was like, "Wow, so he has moved."
it was where their whole, like, persona is just, like,
looking at about two and a half million views a month.
and want to see me make more.
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a largely forgotten '90s flick
"This is not a game," "Godfather III,"
a mega-conspiracy theory
Sommer: Well, when you, when you start looking into it,
that allowed people to just speak their mind
I got five emails this morning.
and I immediately started following on 4chan.
were on the brink of being cured.
And so, someone who's going through it,
So as soon as a Q post is up,
I have the Q, if you want to see it.
or as the users call them-- and keep everybody engaged.
but they're like, "Wow. This guy's getting a lot of pizza."
They move to a board that is then, uh, controlled
QAnon picked your website.
In 2018, I reached out to him over Twitter.
that Q was no longer real.
Filmmaker: A story of how a website changed the world.
Filmmaker: Tell me a little bit about the board change that happened.
and their global partners
Things we think we know about this guy,
that it only takes a five-minute YouTube video
That's all I felt.
and so they won't actually come out
So I offered to pick Joy up at the airport and bring her over.
Sometimes 10 days would go by without a single message.
-Filmmaker: To you name it. -Corsi: There's no evidence
into proof Q exists.
Sommer: Q moves from 4chan to 8chan
interpreted by followers,
♪ And the White Knight is talking backwards ♪
when a man from North Carolina comes up and fires some shots.
my husband started reading Q posts,
I'm gonna just be honest, here.
Watkins: Correct. Because every other website banned him.
Yo, Q don't reach out to anybody.
who shares cryptic messages through an online forum
'Cause, you know, God's first,